Wedding Painter Explained

Wedding Painter is the conventional name for an ancient Greek vase painter active in Athens from circa 480 to 460 BC. He painted in the red-figure technique. His name vase is a pyxis in the Louvre depicting the wedding of Thetis and Peleus.

Works

• Athens, National Archaeological Museum

krater 1388 • pyxis 14908

• Barcelona, Museo Arqueologico

fragment of a bowl 584 • fragment of a bowl stand 4339

• Berkeley, University of California, Robert H. Lowie Museum

bowl 924 A

• Berlin, Antikensammlung

lip cup F 2547

• Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico

fragment of a bowl 373 • bowl 374

• Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum

bowl 144 A

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

bell krater 95.26

• Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

bowl 1845

• Compiègne, Musee Vivenel

bowl 1090 • bowl 1104

• Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina

skyphos T 441

• Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

fragment of a bowl 11 B 10 • fragment of a bowl 17 B 7 • fragment of a bowl 20 B 11 • fragment of a bowl PD 28 • fragment of a bowl PD 172 • fragment of a bowl PD 289 • fragment of a bowl PD 563

• Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Fragment of a bowl

• London, British Museum

hydria E 226

• formerly Munich, private collection Paul Arndt

bowls

• formerly New Haven, Clairmont

pyxis

• New York City, Metropolitan Museum

pyxis 39.11.8

• Padula, Salerno, Museo Archeologico della Lucania Occidentale nella Certosa di Padula

Fragment of a bowl stand

• Paris, Musée National du Louvre

bowl CP 10952 • fragment of a bowl CP 11605 • fragment of a bowl CP 11606 • fragment of a bowl CP 11607 • fragment of a bowl CP 11608 • fragment of a bowl CP 11609 • fragment of a bowl CP 11610 • fragment of a bowl CP 11611 • bowl G 269 • bowl G 630 • pyxis L 55

• Prague, Charles University

lekythos 22.62

• Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale

2 fragments of bowls • fragment of a skyphos

• Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum

fragment of a kantharos 34.157

• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

bell krater 1771 • bowl 2150

• Winchester, College Museum

bowl 71

Bibliography

• John Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, p. 922-924.